Have a Cigar! Golden Age only....! 45 45

[Robot Man]

19 hours ago, fifties said:

Can't beat that particular pair, RM, so how about these?

NICE!  Those 4 make quite a pretty sight don't they?

[fifties]

39 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

NICE!  Those 4 make quite a pretty sight don't they?

Yup, women losing their heads, lol.  Do you Roly Poly?

[Zolnerowich]

This post is titled: "I bought a book at San Diego Comic Con without leaving my house!"

The story begins back on Dec. 9, 2017, with my not getting a ticket for SDCC. No surprise there. 

Fortunately, some of the boardies were clever enough to score tickets. 

Which meant that they attended SDCC, and importantly, took WALL PHOTOS. 

I have to single out @n2wdw, who first put me on the right path. In addition to his having the best comic cave ever, he took lots of wall photos and posted them on the boards. Here is one of his photos from the July 23, 2018 installment of his Tales of the Comic Book Room:

 

Can you guess which book caught my eye? No, not the Three Stooges, as funny as they are! And I'm not really a Hedgehog kind of collector. 

So the next step in my quest (feel free just to scroll to the end if you can't stand the suspense) was to contact Terry @TerrysComics and inquire about the book. I sent Terry an email. The very next day I received the disastrous email reply that the book had been SOLD at SDCC! 

Figuring my path had led to a dead end, I contented myself with soothing my sorrows in the CGC Forum sales threads. 

Plucking my way through the threads, I happened upon the sales thread that @Nikelspot had recently launched. Idly reading through the thread, suddenly, lo and behold, there was the book! The very book! A few PMs later, I was the proud owner of the book. It's a bit the worse for wear since it hit the newsstand in 1940, but it is among the hardest of the early books in this title to find, in any kind of grade, and still has pretty great colors.

So special thanks to n2wdw, Terry, and Nik for helping me bring this home from SDCC without ever leaving my house!!!

 

Spoiler

 

 

[D84]

Got this last week, but just got around to scanning the front cover.  This will look good next to my low grade Batman 9.

 

[n2wdw]

10 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

This post is titled: "I bought a book at San Diego Comic Con without leaving my house!"

The story begins back on Dec. 9, 2017, with my not getting a ticket for SDCC. No surprise there. 

Fortunately, some of the boardies were clever enough to score tickets. 

Which meant that they attended SDCC, and importantly, took WALL PHOTOS. 

I have to single out @n2wdw, who first put me on the right path. In addition to his having the best comic cave ever, he took lots of wall photos and posted them on the boards. Here is one of his photos from the July 23, 2018 installment of his Tales of the Comic Book Room:

 

Can you guess which book caught my eye? No, not the Three Stooges, as funny as they are! And I'm not really a Hedgehog kind of collector. 

So the next step in my quest (feel free just to scroll to the end if you can't stand the suspense) was to contact Terry @TerrysComics and inquire about the book. I sent Terry an email. The very next day I received the disastrous email reply that the book had been SOLD at SDCC! 

Figuring my path had led to a dead end, I contented myself with soothing my sorrows in the CGC Forum sales threads. 

Plucking my way through the threads, I happened upon the sales thread that @Nikelspot had recently launched. Idly reading through the thread, suddenly, lo and behold, there was the book! The very book! A few PMs later, I was the proud owner of the book. It's a bit the worse for wear since it hit the newsstand in 1940, but it is among the hardest of the early books in this title to find, in any kind of grade, and still has pretty great colors.

So special thanks to n2wdw, Terry, and Nik for helping me bring this home from SDCC without ever leaving my house!!!

 

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Great story.  But what a failure on my part!  I took that picture but didn't even notice the comic, as I would have asked Terry about it.  Probably I was more focused on Sonic.  But I'm happy you got it.

[batman_fan]

On 8/14/2018 at 7:42 PM, fifties said:

Can't beat that particular pair, RM, so how about these?

I sure hope he sharpened that ax first. Nothing worse than trying to use a dull ax 

[Zolnerowich]

2 hours ago, n2wdw said:

Great story.  But what a failure on my part!  I took that picture but didn't even notice the comic, as I would have asked Terry about it.  Probably I was more focused on Sonic.  But I'm happy you got it.

Whew! Though it looks like you scored some pretty awesome books yourself. Just goes to show that luck and timing are a big part of collecting these funny books.

[Robot Man]

Got myself a new Ozark Ike off he boards this week. These are just so cool in so many ways. Great covers on most all of them. GGA, great art and baseball stories. A great read and still for the moment fairly reasonable.

Plus an added bonus, from A PA newspaper...

[Sqeggs]

21 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

This post is titled: "I bought a book at San Diego Comic Con without leaving my house!"

The story begins back on Dec. 9, 2017, with my not getting a ticket for SDCC. No surprise there. 

Fortunately, some of the boardies were clever enough to score tickets. 

Which meant that they attended SDCC, and importantly, took WALL PHOTOS. 

I have to single out @n2wdw, who first put me on the right path. In addition to his having the best comic cave ever, he took lots of wall photos and posted them on the boards. Here is one of his photos from the July 23, 2018 installment of his Tales of the Comic Book Room:

 

Can you guess which book caught my eye? No, not the Three Stooges, as funny as they are! And I'm not really a Hedgehog kind of collector. 

So the next step in my quest (feel free just to scroll to the end if you can't stand the suspense) was to contact Terry @TerrysComics and inquire about the book. I sent Terry an email. The very next day I received the disastrous email reply that the book had been SOLD at SDCC! 

Figuring my path had led to a dead end, I contented myself with soothing my sorrows in the CGC Forum sales threads. 

Plucking my way through the threads, I happened upon the sales thread that @Nikelspot had recently launched. Idly reading through the thread, suddenly, lo and behold, there was the book! The very book! A few PMs later, I was the proud owner of the book. It's a bit the worse for wear since it hit the newsstand in 1940, but it is among the hardest of the early books in this title to find, in any kind of grade, and still has pretty great colors.

So special thanks to n2wdw, Terry, and Nik for helping me bring this home from SDCC without ever leaving my house!!!

 

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Strangely enough, I also bought a book from Terry by remote control by also scoping out @n2wdw's pic.  Luckily, he hadn't sold my -- admittedly less cool -- book:  The Texan 14. 

The reach of the boards is long and wide!

[Sqeggs]

On 8/9/2018 at 12:41 PM, oceans11 said:

Liked the cover as it’s Kubert, and as an added bonus it’s listed as scarce in guide . 

Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought this cover had a hint of Ditko in it.  Probably too early for him to have had a hand in it, though.  Maybe the causation is in the other direction -- Kubert influencing Ditko?  Or maybe I'm just imagining things. 

[Readcomix]

38 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought this cover had a hint of Ditko in it.  Probably too early for him to have had a hand in it, though.  Maybe the causation is in the other direction -- Kubert influencing Ditko?  Or maybe I'm just imagining things. 

I see it; that's a Harry Osborn-lookin' guy right there.

[Sqeggs]

10 minutes ago, Readcomix said:

49 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought this cover had a hint of Ditko in it.  Probably too early for him to have had a hand in it, though.  Maybe the causation is in the other direction -- Kubert influencing Ditko?  Or maybe I'm just imagining things. 

I see it; that's a Harry Osborn-lookin' guy right there.

Sure does seem so, doesn't it? 

[Zolnerowich]

1 hour ago, Sqeggs said:

Strangely enough, I also bought a book from Terry by remote control by also scoping out @n2wdw's pic.  Luckily, he hadn't sold my -- admittedly less cool -- book:  The Texan 14. 

The reach of the boards is long and wide!

Great telepathic minds think alike!

[Robot Man]

4 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought this cover had a hint of Ditko in it.  Probably too early for him to have had a hand in it, though.  Maybe the causation is in the other direction -- Kubert influencing Ditko?  Or maybe I'm just imagining things. 

I would agree. It looks a lot more like Ditko than Kubert.

Also has a bit of a Harvey Weinstein slant to it as well...

Edited August 17, 2018 by Robot Man

[Tri-Color Brian]

I had never seen this cover before, but while searching a dealer's auctions on ebay I saw it.  I won it cheap too, so I don't know what's up with this book, but I like it.  I mean, just look at it...it has two guns blazing...what could be better than that? 

Edited August 17, 2018 by Tri-ColorBrian

[adamstrange]

2 hours ago, Robot Man said:

7 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought this cover had a hint of Ditko in it.  Probably too early for him to have had a hand in it, though.  Maybe the causation is in the other direction -- Kubert influencing Ditko?  Or maybe I'm just imagining things. 

I would agree. It looks a lot more like Ditko than Kubert.

Ditko early influences included both Kubert as well as one of Kubert's favorite artists, Mort Meskin.  There are multiple examples from Ditko where he apes their style.

[Tri-Color Brian]

On 8/14/2018 at 6:22 PM, Robot Man said:

Were not going to start this up again are we fifties???

OK, I see your Fight Against Crime #20, and raise you one.

I will gladly pay you $25 Tuesday for that lower grade copy today...

[comicjack]

3 hours ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

I had never seen this cover before, but while searching a dealer's auctions on ebay I saw it.  I won it cheap too, so I don't know what's up with this book, but I like it.  I mean, just look at it...it has two guns blazing...what could be better than that? 

It's all about the red boots making it special 

[Zolnerowich]

2 hours ago, comicjack said:

It's all about the red boots making it special 

You have an eye for color, Jack! 

[Sqeggs]

6 hours ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

I had never seen this cover before, but while searching a dealer's auctions on ebay I saw it.  I won it cheap too, so I don't know what's up with this book, but I like it.  I mean, just look at it...it has two guns blazing...what could be better than that? 

Apparently I'm in cosmic harmony with my fellow boardies lately because I picked up a copy of that one a couple of weeks ago.  Still haven't gotten around to scanning it.